Qʼanjobʼal people
E614569
The Qʼanjobʼal people are an indigenous Maya group from the highlands of northwestern Guatemala, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional weaving, and rich communal cultural practices.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Qʼanjobʼal people canonical | 5 |
| Chuj people | 1 |
| Q’anjob’al people | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561564 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qʼanjobʼal people Context triple: [Qʼanjobʼal, spokenBy, Qʼanjobʼal people]
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A.
Kʼicheʼ people
The Kʼicheʼ people are a major indigenous Maya group of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic heritage, traditional weaving, and the sacred text Popol Vuh.
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B.
Kaqchikel people
The Kaqchikel people are an indigenous Maya group of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, rich weaving and agricultural traditions, and enduring cultural heritage.
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C.
Zoque people
The Zoque people are an Indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting parts of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Tabasco, known for their Zoquean languages and rich traditions in agriculture, crafts, and communal festivals.
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D.
Amuzgo people
The Amuzgo people are an indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting the border region of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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E.
Tacana people
The Tacana people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich oral traditions, and efforts to defend their ancestral territories and cultural autonomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qʼanjobʼal people Target entity description: The Qʼanjobʼal people are an indigenous Maya group from the highlands of northwestern Guatemala, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional weaving, and rich communal cultural practices.
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A.
Kʼicheʼ people
The Kʼicheʼ people are a major indigenous Maya group of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their rich linguistic heritage, traditional weaving, and the sacred text Popol Vuh.
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B.
Kaqchikel people
The Kaqchikel people are an indigenous Maya group of the Guatemalan highlands, known for their distinct Mayan language, rich weaving and agricultural traditions, and enduring cultural heritage.
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C.
Zoque people
The Zoque people are an Indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting parts of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Tabasco, known for their Zoquean languages and rich traditions in agriculture, crafts, and communal festivals.
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D.
Amuzgo people
The Amuzgo people are an indigenous Mesoamerican group primarily inhabiting the border region of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Oto-Manguean language and rich textile-weaving traditions.
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E.
Tacana people
The Tacana people are an Indigenous group of the Bolivian Amazon known for their forest-based livelihoods, rich oral traditions, and efforts to defend their ancestral territories and cultural autonomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maya people
ⓘ
indigenous people ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| culturalHeritage |
Mayan calendrical knowledge
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual music and dance ⓘ |
| culturalPractice |
communal land use
ⓘ
extended kin-based communities ⓘ traditional Mayan ceremonies ⓘ use of traditional dress ⓘ |
| diaspora |
Mexico
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicGroup | Maya civilization ⓘ |
| ethnologueCode | kjb ⓘ |
| glottocode | kanj1242 ⓘ |
| historicalExperience | Guatemalan Civil War displacement ⓘ |
| language | Qʼanjobʼal language ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Qʼanjobʼalan languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Huehuetenango Department ⓘ |
| mainMunicipality |
San Juan Ixcoy
ⓘ
Santa Cruz Barillas ⓘ Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango ⓘ Soloma ⓘ |
| neighboringGroup |
Akatek people
ⓘ
linked to:
Akatek
Chuj people ⓘ Poptiʼ (Jakaltek) people ⓘ
linked to:
Jakaltek (Popti’) Maya people
|
| partOf |
Mesoamerican cultural area
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesoamerica
|
| region |
Guatemalan Highlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Guatemala Highlands
northwestern Guatemala ⓘ |
| religion |
Maya religion
ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
Roman Catholicism ⓘ syncretic Maya-Catholic practices ⓘ |
| selfIdentification | Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ |
| traditionalCraft |
backstrap loom weaving
ⓘ
textile production ⓘ |
| traditionalDress |
corte
ⓘ
faja ⓘ huipil ⓘ |
| traditionalOccupation |
subsistence agriculture
ⓘ
weaving ⓘ |
| UNESCOCategory | indigenous peoples of Central America ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Qʼanjobʼal people Description of subject: The Qʼanjobʼal people are an indigenous Maya group from the highlands of northwestern Guatemala, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional weaving, and rich communal cultural practices.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Qʼanjobʼal people
linked to: Qʼanjobʼal people